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Summary: How to remove foil after applying hair highlights; get professional tips and advice on methods, techniques, and products for doing your own hairstyling in this free beauty video.
Issac Aralgis has been a professional hair stylist for 10 years. He is Studio Certified, and worked at Melrose Hair Studio, and Lance Christopher, where he created hair styles and...read more
"Our next step is going to be the removal of your foils. Once you have checked your foils and found your desired color, what you want to do is gently remove them. Each time you are checking your desired color, like I mentioned, every two to three minutes after your initial ten minutes, you want to be very careful not to use the end of that because you could poke a hole into your foil because it could seep out into the eyes and into the hair that is exposed. When you reach your desired color you are going to want to also be very gentle because you do not want it to be pulling on your hair. What we are going to do when we take it out is we are going to start from the top where when we put it in we started from the bottom. We gently unfold it. You see your desired color, you are happy It, and so you continue to unfold it because you are done. What you are going to continue to do is to take the hair out of the foil. You are going to dispose of your foil. The foil is recyclable so you can recycle that. Gently unfold it, like I say you do not want to poke any holes in it. You are going to see your desired color and you are going to want to continue to take that out and again, dispose of your aluminum foil. When you have all of that out you can pull of your sections down and from there we are going to go on to the next step."
eHow Article: Removing Foil for Hair Highlights